The Daily WTF Should Be Required Reading

computer science cs degree Software engineering Legacy code Education Real-world coding Daily wtf Curriculum

Programming Debugging Testing Algorithms

5 months ago 165,189 views 0 shares

The Daily WTF Should Be Required Reading

education-memes, computer-science-memes, real-world-coding-memes, daily-wtf-memes, curriculum-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

College CS departments be like: "Here's how to implement a red-black tree from scratch" but won't teach you about the horrors of production code written by caffeinated developers at 2AM. The Daily WTF chronicles real-world coding disasters that no algorithm class prepares you for. Nothing says "welcome to the industry" like inheriting a codebase where someone used Excel as a database and regex to parse HTML. Academia vs reality: the eternal comedy special.

More Like This

Pretty Accurate

Programming

9 months ago 28.6K views 0 shares

prettyAccurate | developer-memes, tech-memes, interview-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content Send a CV Send a cV Interview with HR Get rejected Interview. S with developers Technical Interview Get rejected

End Of The Line

Programming

7 months ago 41.4K views 0 shares

endOfTheLine | programmer-memes, program-memes, semicolon-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content It's the end of the line, programmer... ...and I am missing the semicolon! Thanks! TAP TAP TAP Daniel Stor; furnoff.us)

Winning With The Dumbest Algorithm Possible

Programming AI Gamedev Algorithms

1 month ago 204.8K views 0 shares

Winning With The Dumbest Algorithm Possible

Sometimes the dumbest solution is the winning solution! This freshman created a poker bot with just two lines of code: if isMyTurn: goAllIn() and absolutely demolished sophisticated algorithms by exploiting their risk-averse logic. The sophisticated bots kept folding to aggressive all-ins, proving that in both poker and programming, simplicity can trump complexity. It's basically the computational equivalent of the "spray and pray" technique—except it actually worked!

Over-the-shoulder induced amnesia

Programming

4 years ago 27.8K views 0 shares

Over-the-shoulder induced amnesia | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content OVER THE SHOULDER INDUCED AMNESIA I'LL JUST HEY, DID YOU WAIT THEN FINISH THE NEW PAGE ALREADY? JUST ABOUT... WAIT, 15 HE GOING TO STAY HERE? 1 reference 1 O changes lo authses, O changes public static IEnumerablecint ComputeRower(int number I FORGOT EVERYTHING CRAPCREATIONS.TUMBIR.COM

How About You Shut Up

Programming AI

4 months ago 148.8K views 0 shares

How About You Shut Up

Congratulations! You've been selected to experience the 47th AI assistant that'll revolutionize your workflow this week! Companies are sprinting to slap "AI" on literally anything with an if-statement while developers are increasingly immune to the hype. We've reached the point where hearing "our revolutionary AI assistant" triggers the same response as getting another LinkedIn message from a recruiter who "noticed your impressive experience." The mute button has never looked so appealing.

This One Hit Me Hard

Programming

3 years ago 31.0K views 0 shares

This One Hit Me Hard | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content CAN YOU PASS ME THE SALT? PASS-BY-VALUE OR PASS-BY-REFERENCE.? ProarammerHumor.io